jnarowe
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Shawn, actually I don't. I used one temporarily while starting up the tank because I hadn't built my skimmer yet. It was one of the household sized ones and is still waiting in the hallway to get hooked back up where it belongs. What I found with this is that the filters got clogged up fairly quickly and filled with snails etc. I then switched to filter socks but have since stopped because I changed out my sumps and it is too difficult to change out the socks now. My plan is to install a perforated shelf to lay floss on.
BTW, I must make a small connection here: Since i stopped using the socks, my vermetid population has grow much faster. I think there may be a corellation.
So, today was one of those days.
I had issues going on all day with the store and the tank. I found out a couple days ago that my CO2 tank had run dry and my spare was in use at the store for a refrigeration project. Many angering issues have come up all day and all the while, oor power was out at the house. There was a power line laying across the road when I took my son to school! So the power was out for between 8 - 10 hours. I came home a couple times to check on things, and brought in a UPS to run a Vortech pump (which wasn't already charged so the effort was futile). The power finally came on and all animals seem to be in good shape. The tank temp. was fine and pH was slightly high due to the lack of CO2. I had shut down the top-off last night so it didn't spike.
Then I notice tonight a lot of water on the floor and discover that the top to my kalk reactor had been leaking the previous day. Its postion in the tank room allows for seepage to flow down the back and onto the floor under the tank, and somehow it got by my water sensor on the floor. Ugh!!! And the shop-vac is at the store of course...and today Fedex Freight delivered the doors for my new walk-in display freezer with one of them shattered. It takes 2 months for them to build these things and I told my wife today that I can't work with people! I really wanted to punch an old lady today.
Oh well, nothing that beer can't fix! :lol:
BTW, I must make a small connection here: Since i stopped using the socks, my vermetid population has grow much faster. I think there may be a corellation.
So, today was one of those days.
I had issues going on all day with the store and the tank. I found out a couple days ago that my CO2 tank had run dry and my spare was in use at the store for a refrigeration project. Many angering issues have come up all day and all the while, oor power was out at the house. There was a power line laying across the road when I took my son to school! So the power was out for between 8 - 10 hours. I came home a couple times to check on things, and brought in a UPS to run a Vortech pump (which wasn't already charged so the effort was futile). The power finally came on and all animals seem to be in good shape. The tank temp. was fine and pH was slightly high due to the lack of CO2. I had shut down the top-off last night so it didn't spike.Then I notice tonight a lot of water on the floor and discover that the top to my kalk reactor had been leaking the previous day. Its postion in the tank room allows for seepage to flow down the back and onto the floor under the tank, and somehow it got by my water sensor on the floor. Ugh!!! And the shop-vac is at the store of course...and today Fedex Freight delivered the doors for my new walk-in display freezer with one of them shattered. It takes 2 months for them to build these things and I told my wife today that I can't work with people! I really wanted to punch an old lady today.
Oh well, nothing that beer can't fix! :lol:
That generator project I need to do keeps slapping me in the back of the head. And it hurts! Can't wait to see your paddle skimmer.
) and didn't come back on until 12:30 pm today. At 2:30am I woke up and started getting worried, doing the math in my head, 8am would mean 12 hours without power and that is my panic point. At about 4:30 am I went out to find a generator checking into all 24 hour places like Wal-Mart etc. Every store that I know of in this county was sold out of generators!
